Please Help Identify This Animal

[ATA]

guys, Do you what is that? he is newly moved here and he is very active :). Any suggestions that what to do? just let him do what he do?

[Eric 26]

@ATA looks like a gopher.

[cheezyridr]

whatever you do,  DO NOT take any advice from this guy

[VolFan]

That’s a groundhog/woodchuck right @TnRiver46?

 

I don’t think they’re too hard to trap but what you do with it them might be the bigger question. 

[GreenPig]

221 Fireball is made for such critters and that the stick I'd use.

[VolFan]

I think @clayton86 may recommend 40 grains of .223 at 3300 fps…

[Jar11591]

My condolences 

[newriverfisherman1953]

Yep groundhog. Shooting it is a lot easier than trapping it. For trapping I recommend a conibear rather than a live trap. 

[GaryH]

Groundhog. They kept me and the 17 hmr busy the last 2 years. They love making basements under all the out buildings.

[clayton86]

1 hour ago, VolFan said:

I think @clayton86 may recommend 40 grains of .223 at 3300 fps…

Both my .223/556 aren’t hunting rifles I prefer 62gr varmint grenades out of the .243 around 3800fps 

[steve carpenter]

Do they have ground hogs in California? 

[BigAngus752]

4 minutes ago, steve carpenter said:

Do they have ground hogs in California? 

One. 

[TnRiver46]

Never been to cali but sure looks like a groundhog. Don’t know if they exist out west . If not it’s something similar like marmot, prairie dog, pocket gopher, etc. Groundhog will walk into a trap eventually if you keep fresh sliced apples in there every couple days. But like others have suggested if you can take a pic you can take a shot 😂. Not sure if that’s an option where you live, scatter gun doesn’t go far but the neighbors will hear it . Some would be thrilled some would call the law 

[BigAngus752]

6 minutes ago, steve carpenter said:

Do they have ground hogs in California? 

I just looked it up.  They have groundhogs, but they call them the "California Woodchuck" because everything is special there.  

[A-Jay]

5 minutes ago, BigAngus752 said:

I just looked it up.  They have groundhogs, but they call them the "California Woodchuck" because everything is special there.  

I heard they get decent free health care too.

A-Jay

[BigAngus752]

1 minute ago, A-Jay said:

I heard they get decent free health care too.

A-Jay

Where I work they regularly succumb to lead poisoning.  

[looking45]

Whatever it is, it’s digging and you want to get rid of it as soon as possible before it does some damage. A high powered airgun should be able to take it out. A lot quieter than a firearm

[A-Jay]

2 minutes ago, BigAngus752 said:

Where I work they regularly succumb to lead poisoning.  

We have the mini models up here.

Still a PIA.

We go all ninja on them.

A-Jay

[ATA]

38 minutes ago, steve carpenter said:

Do they have ground hogs in California? 

Apparently this one just moved in while everyone trying to get out of CA 

[GreenPig]

50 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Never been to cali but sure looks like a groundhog. Don’t know if they exist out west . If not it’s something similar like marmot, prairie dog, pocket gopher, etc. Groundhog will walk into a trap eventually if you keep fresh sliced apples in there every couple days. But like others have suggested if you can take a pic you can take a shot 😂. Not sure if that’s an option where you live, scatter gun doesn’t go far but the neighbors will hear it . Some would be thrilled some would call the law 

I could fix that Groundhog with this from your back deck while you're napping on the couch with the windows open and not wake you. 

[TnRiver46]

Well I’ve napped next to train tracks so I don’t count 😂 

 

 

[Bird]

The image is to clear to call it bigfoot 😁

[12poundbass]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

pocket gopher

Sounds like something they’d sell at an adult bookstore 😂

[cheezyridr]

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Well I’ve napped next to train tracks so I don’t count 😂 

 

 

 

you could be my long lost brother  😆

[casts_by_fly]

3 hours ago, GreenPig said:

I could fix that Groundhog with this from your back deck while you're napping on the couch with the windows open and not wake you. 

except silencers are illegal in California. Same as NJ where I am. I used to have them in the UK and most of my guns are threaded for them. I gave them away when I left. 
 

4 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Never been to cali but sure looks like a groundhog. Don’t know if they exist out west . If not it’s something similar like marmot, prairie dog, pocket gopher, etc. Groundhog will walk into a trap eventually if you keep fresh sliced apples in there every couple days. But like others have suggested if you can take a pic you can take a shot 😂. Not sure if that’s an option where you live, scatter gun doesn’t go far but the neighbors will hear it . Some would be thrilled some would call the law 

at that range I’d just use my bow. If you can get a picture like that you can shoot it with a bow.